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Slack is a proprietary cloud-based team collaboration tool.

Slack is a messaging program designed specifically for the workplace. Developed by American software company Slack Technologies and now owned by Salesforce, Slack offers many IRC-style features, including persistent chat rooms (channels) organized by topic, private groups, and direct messaging.

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Slack webhook html table

I have a HTML table that I am trying to post to Slack via webhook. Is there a way to post the HTML table to Slack? Here is the HTML code: HTML Tables
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How do I make a slack bot leave a channel?

Bots cannot use the regular channels.leave API call, so how do I make a bot leave a channel, short of kicking it? I need it to leave a channel where I do not have rights to kick users.
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Slack: change browser to open links from desktop app

I use two browsers on my laptop - Brave for my personal stuff (Facebook, personal email, interesting things I want to read) and Firefox for my work browsing (work email, internal webpages, work communication). Normally I like having my default…
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How do you tag people with a slack bot?

I built a bot for slack. It reads the message when a new user joins and I intend for it to post a message welcoming them: "Welcome @user! What are you building!?" When it posts @user it doesn't seem as though the actual "tag" is working. Do I need…
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Schedule a repeating Slack phone call

I would like to schedule a call in Slack to automatically call a set group of people every day at a specified time. My use case is that I want all members of my team to automatically be called by Slack at 10:45am, for example, every week day for…
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How to send Slack notification after a Jenkins pipeline build failed?

I have a pipeline groovy script in Jenkins v2.19. Also I have a "Slack Notification Plugin" v2.0.1 and "Groovy Postbuild Plugin" installed. I can successfully send "build started" and "build finished" messages. When a build fails, how can I send the…
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How do I send "@here" with the Slack API?

I know I can tag a user with <@U423DFDE|username> but I can't figure out how to tag @here
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Slack: is there a way to disable all @channel notifications

The Slack chat tool by default sends email notifications saying "You were mentioned ..." when in fact it was @channel and not you. The only way I can find to turn these off is to go into each channel setting.
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How to avoid slack command timeout error?

I am working with slack command (python code is running behind this), it works fine, but this gives error This slash command experienced a problem: 'Timeout was reached' (error detail provided only to team owning command). How to avoid this ?
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Slack bot cannot post message to private channel

I follow Slack bot post message documents it works perfectly when post to public channel, but get error [error] => channel_not_found when post to private channel, I even change channel_name to channel ID (ex: G1HCG4BQ9) I already authorized with…
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How to send direct messages to a user as app in app channel

How is it possible to send message in slack directly to the user, by user.id as application. this application has scope: bot,channels:write,emoji:read,users:read,users:read.email I find how to send message only as DM or by webhooks, but there is no…
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Slack - change week start day for message reminder

I'm using Slack reminders extensively. When reading a message I want to handle next week, I just use "Next Week" message reminder. However, my work week starts on Sunday, where this message would pop up on Monday as the default week start day. Is…
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How to edit the link in a slack notification from Grafana

We are using Grafana 4 and have implemented alert notifications to a slack channel through an Incoming Webhook. The notifications are sent as and wen expected, except that the link in the notification points to the wrong place. For instance, if you…
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Groovy: Method definition not expected here

I'm sure this is a simple fix but I'm new to programming in general and Groovy in particular. I am trying to follow this guide to enable slack notifications in a Jenkins 2 pipeline job but pasting and customizing the final code block is giving me…
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slash command "dispatch_failed"

I have went through creating the custom slash command configuration via slack and installed it on workspace. However when I run it I get this /testing failed with the error "dispatch_failed" I tried multiple workspaces but same issue. Anyone…
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